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Discus and support Issue while installing Windows on separate drive WITHOUT dual boot, shared system and... in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; I have 2 physical drives drive 1 and drive 2. My drive 1 already has a Windows 10 RS5/19H1 installed, and I want to install a Windows 10RS5 on my... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by guru379, Jan 23, 2020.

  1. guru379 Win User

    Issue while installing Windows on separate drive WITHOUT dual boot, shared system and...


    I have 2 physical drives drive 1 and drive 2.

    My drive 1 already has a Windows 10 RS5/19H1 installed, and I want to install a Windows 10RS5 on my drive 2.

    on Driver 1, I can see for partitions:

    - Ssytem

    - Recovery

    - MSR

    - Primary

    I first tried to boot from a USB stick and tried to install RS5 on the drive 2. It installed windows successfully,

    now I See there are only 2 new partitions created that is Primary and MSR, and looks like OS loader got installed into System partition when I was installing OS on Driver 2.


    Is it expected behavior of Windows? As this doesn't Allow to boot from Drive 2 alone, Drive 1 has to be present then only can boot from Drive 2.

    OR need to install OS on each driver separately.

    Is this known issue/feature with Windows OS installer? is there any documentation on this behavior?

    :)
     
    guru379, Jan 23, 2020
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    exodusprime1337, Jan 23, 2020
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  3. topgundcp Win User
    Dual Booting with Windows 8.1


    The procedure below will allow you to boot Windows separately or in dual boot configuration.
    Here's what I recommend to do:
    1. Disconnect the drive containing Windows 8.1
    2. Install Windows 10 with one drive connected.
    3. After step 2, reconnect the drive containing Windows 8.1
    4. Boot up Windows 8.1. Open disk management and take a note of the drive letter of Windows 10 OS.
      NOTE: if you boot up Windows 10, then take a note of Windows 8.1 drive letter
    5. Open Admin command prompt and type: bcdboot X:\windows where X: is the drive letter of Windows 10 (Windows 8.1 if you boot from Windows 10 in step 4)
    6. Reboot the PC. You should have a dual boot screen.

    NOTE: To break off the dual boot setting, Win+R->msconfig->boot and delete the none default entry on the list.
     
    topgundcp, Jan 23, 2020
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  4. Avocado Win User

    Issue while installing Windows on separate drive WITHOUT dual boot, shared system and...

    EasyBCD Dual Boot management for Win10 and Win7 on separate drives


    You can use the "bcdedit /export" command to create a backup file of the current system store contents.

    bcdedit /export c:\bcd.bak

    You can then use the "bcdedit /import" command if you want to restore the state of the system store.

    bcdedit /import c:\bcd.bak

    How to use BCDBoot to add or repair the boot menu on a dual-boot PC (works on both GPT and MBR disks)

    If you've installed more than one copy of Windows on a PC, you can use BCDBoot to add or repair the boot menu.

    For example: How to add Windows 7 entry to the boot menu.

    On the Windows 10 desktop, open a command prompt as administrator and type the following commands.

    diskpart
    list volume (note the volume letter where the Windows 7 is installed)
    exit

    bcdboot x:\windows (replace "x" with the volume letter of the Windows 7 partition)

    Now you should see the Windows 7 and Windows 10 entries on the dual-boot screen.


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    Windows 7 style dual-boot screen (see screenshot below).


    Issue while installing Windows on separate drive WITHOUT dual boot, shared system and... [​IMG]


    Windows 10 style dual-boot screen (see screenshot below).


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    Issue while installing Windows on separate drive WITHOUT dual boot, shared system and... [​IMG]


    How to restore the Windows 7 style dual-boot screen

    On the Windows 7 desktop, open a command prompt as administrator and type the following command.

    bcdboot %windir%

    How to restore the Windows 10 style dual-boot screen

    On the Windows 10 desktop, open a command prompt as administrator and type the following command.

    bcdboot %windir%


    Issue while installing Windows on separate drive WITHOUT dual boot, shared system and... [​IMG]


    How to fix the Windows 10 bootloader

    Look at post #24 in this thread: How do I restore w10 bootloader? dual boot with ubuntu on separate hdd
     
    Avocado, Jan 23, 2020
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